Daily Archives: April 9, 2012

With little fanfare, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a “Programmatic Update” on the use of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat pregnant women and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) that identifies Option B and Option B plus as preferable to Option A. Both Option B and Option B+ call for the administration of triple […]

Including recommendations that injected drugs with permanent debilitating side effects not be included in longer treatment regimens against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and the inclusion of the most […]